政治論集
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- APAデイヴィッド・ヒューム. (n.d.). Hume's Political Discourses [政治論集]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/david-hume/hume-s-political-discourses
- MLAデイヴィッド・ヒューム. Hume's Political Discourses [政治論集]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/david-hume/hume-s-political-discourses.
- Chicagoデイヴィッド・ヒューム. Hume's Political Discourses [政治論集]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/david-hume/hume-s-political-discourses.
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何についての本か
『政治論集』（一七五二年）。経済学が存在する前の経済学。
背景と歴史
重商主義を攻撃し、金を貯め込んでも国は富まない理由を説き、価格・正貨流出入の仕組みを描いている。アダム・スミスはこれを読んでおり、『国富論』は直接ここから出ている。
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The bulk of every state may be divided into husbandmen and manufacturers. The former are employed in the culture of the land; the latter work up the materials furnished by the former, into all the commodities which are necessary and ornamental to human life. As soon as men quit their savage state, where they live chiefly by hunting and fishing, they must fall into these two classes; though the arts of agriculture employ at first the most numerous part of the society.[7] Time and experience improve so much these arts, that the land may easily maintain a much greater number of men than those who are immediately employed in its cultivation, or who furnish the more necessary manufactures to such as are so employed. If these superfluous hands apply themselves to the finer arts, which are commonly denominated the arts of luxury, they add to the happiness of the state, since they afford to many the opportunity of receiving enjoyments with which they would otherwise have been unacquainted. But may not another scheme be proposed for the employment of these superfluous hands? May not the sovereign lay claim to them, and employ them in fleets and armies, to increase the dominions of the state abroad, and spread its fame over distant nations? It is certain that the fewer desires and wants are found in the proprietors and labourers of land, the fewer hands do they employ; and consequently the superfluities of the land, instead of maintaining tradesmen and manufacturers, may support fleets and armies to a much greater extent than where a great many arts are required to minister to the luxury of particular persons. Here therefore seems to be a kind of opposition between the greatness of the state and the happiness of the subjects. A state is never greater than when all its superfluous hands are employed in the service of the public. The ease and convenience of private persons require that these hands should be employed in their service.…